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From: Laurel, MD
Originally Posted by UV7
Do servers count??? I run a 1U rackmount Asus running two Dual-Core Italy Opterons, 16Gig of RAM, a Terabyte of storage (RAID setup) running Suse 10.1, Postfix, Amavis, Courier-IMAP, etc., etc.. This thing SCREAMS! Literally! Every time I boot this thing up, it sounds like a Concorde at takeoff! Do I win?
If you choose to go Linux, try Suse 10.1. It is, by far, the most fully functional and easy to use flavor of Linux available. Endlessly customizable and very forgiving when it comes to a learning curve. I tried learning Linux using Gentoo. <-- Bad Idea!
If you choose to go Linux, try Suse 10.1. It is, by far, the most fully functional and easy to use flavor of Linux available. Endlessly customizable and very forgiving when it comes to a learning curve. I tried learning Linux using Gentoo. <-- Bad Idea!
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From: Royal Post Palace
Originally Posted by UV7
Do servers count??? I run a 1U rackmount Asus running two Dual-Core Italy Opterons, 16Gig of RAM, a Terabyte of storage (RAID setup) running Suse 10.1, Postfix, Amavis, Courier-IMAP, etc., etc..
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From: ...Lost Somewhere in Time
Originally Posted by w3paint_xA_xB
yea i tried the same Gentoo , and i agree no good. what are u running the server for? 
I also run several Server 2K3 terminal servers built on Dell Opti 2850's that couldn't hold a candle next to the killer Suse RM.
I ran XP Pro on the RM for a week after assembly just to get a comparison with the average desktop. Have you ever seen a Windows box that is so fast, you can hardly see the intro splash screen upon bootup? Unbelievable!!
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From: ...Lost Somewhere in Time
Originally Posted by tC4italy
Originally Posted by UV7
Do servers count??? I run a 1U rackmount Asus running two Dual-Core Italy Opterons, 16Gig of RAM, a Terabyte of storage (RAID setup) running Suse 10.1, Postfix, Amavis, Courier-IMAP, etc., etc..
...an even comparison? Hmmmmm... Maybe so.
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From: ...Lost Somewhere in Time
Originally Posted by w3paint_xA_xB
yea a friend of mine runs a windows server and that thing is lighting fast.
Desktop is a Dell XPS 400 with:
-Pentium® D Processor 930 with Dual Core Technology (3GHz, 800FSB)
-2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 2DIMMs
-256MB PCI Express™ x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) nVidia GeForce 6800
-250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/ 8MB cache
-MAG 19inch lcd [cant find a picture, but its an outdated flatpanel and Im getting a widescreen dell display soon]
-Logitech MX1000 Laser Mouse
-Logitech Z-4 Speakers
-Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard
-Pentium® D Processor 930 with Dual Core Technology (3GHz, 800FSB)
-2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz- 2DIMMs
-256MB PCI Express™ x16 (DVI/VGA/TV-out) nVidia GeForce 6800
-250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/ 8MB cache
-MAG 19inch lcd [cant find a picture, but its an outdated flatpanel and Im getting a widescreen dell display soon]
-Logitech MX1000 Laser Mouse
-Logitech Z-4 Speakers
-Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard
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Originally Posted by iheartzombies
-Pentium® D Processor 930 with Dual Core Technology (3GHz, 800FSB)
-Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard
-Logitech G15 Gaming Keyboard
Man that's a crazy ___ keyboard. Thing looks like you could take control of audio equipment at concerts and the scoreboards at a baseball game...
The Computer is awesome, more than I can ask for. Before I was running a Home Built Modded CPU with a p4 3.0 gig processor and 1.5 gig of ram with AGP. IT SUCKED! When it finnaly started giving me trouble I opted for the dell.
The cpu is great for multitasking, it lets me alt tab out of any game, run multiple applications, etc. All runs quiet as a whisper too.
The keyboard is awesome. Each individual key is backlight by blue lights and the LCD screen gives you a percentage of ram and cpu usage or the time and date. It also interacts with music and lets you skip or control the volume.
The cpu is great for multitasking, it lets me alt tab out of any game, run multiple applications, etc. All runs quiet as a whisper too.
The keyboard is awesome. Each individual key is backlight by blue lights and the LCD screen gives you a percentage of ram and cpu usage or the time and date. It also interacts with music and lets you skip or control the volume.
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AMD Athlon XP +2500@2.2Ghz
ABit NF7-S v2 Mobo
Corsair XMS DDR3200 1024Mb
Radeon 9600XT 128DDR@530Mhz
WinFast TV tuner
CoolMax 600W psu
Maxtor 80Gb HDD/160Gb HDD
Thermaltake Big WaterCooling SE kit
Thermaltake Soprano Case Blk
Lite-on CDRW / Benq DVD DLRW
Windows XP Professional SP2
Benq 17" LCD monitor
Sharp 5.1 Home Theater System
RoadRunner Extreme: Dwn 7969 Kbps (973 kB/s)
Up 491 Kbps(60 kB/s)
Xide-pad II/ Razer Diamondback mouse/ Logitech Elite Keyboard
going Core 2 Duo REAL soon.
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Thankyou sir! She's not the most expensive thing on the planet, but I'm quite happy with her. I'm gonna hold off on computer parts for a while, until the crazyass new multi-core processors and HD graphics cards/physics cards come out and the market has stabilized a bit. Now I just gotta move away from Windows to Linux. Currently trying to learn it on a frankenstein machine I built for it. Sadly most game won't run on Linux. They're working on it though... (crosses fingers)